Luminosities videotaped over the Barbury Castle
"Dolphins" crop circle in August, 1999
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After looking through the video several times, I would say it's impossible to tell much about the shape of the flying object, other than that it is a white ball, not bigger than a soccer ball. However, I've traced the movement of the object in two portions of the footage. I simply took a still frame and then frame by frame (actually every other frame) manually copied the location of the ball on to the still frame. In the first portion the object is flying apparently on a steady altitude (perhaps a few meters above the field), getting slightly towards the camera. A moment before being left out of the picture it seems that the person on the extreme left side notices the ball and turns towards it (can't be 100% sure of this). Until now the ball has been flying on a straight course at appr. 10 m/s (35 km/h):
Just before reaching the tramline running through the middle of the formation, the ball suddenly changes course. It starts to increase altitude and accelerate (perhaps because it was spotted?). Just before Don loses it, the ball has reached a velocity of some 30 m/s (100 km/h, a rough estimation based on the scale of the building in the background) and is flying at least a few dozen meters above the ground:
(the playback speed may not be 100% realistic, depending on computer performance, but the two clips display the actual relative difference between the speed in the beginning and end of the footage!) About four seconds after the ball has "exited" the formation, it would seem that another one flies by, at a much greater velocity. It might be this is a lens artifact, however. After Don has lost the ball, he pans his camera back down to the field and misses an object that very clearly is another white ball just like the previous one. This appears to be following the first one, perhaps little slower though. The flight path of the white ball is definitely not that of a trash just flying in the wind, nor a bird. This is most likely an object under control, either by itself or an external source. The same apparently applies to the second object. Martin Keitel, 27th July, 2000
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